If Only I Had Told Her

by Laura Nowlin

Finn isn’t here, and for a moment, I’m envious of him.

It feels like our mourning is all she has left of Finn. Our grief is proof of his life.

What will I have left of Finn when the hurt is gone?

I’m so, so grateful that Finn was once alive and that I got to love him. That he got to love and be loved.

Children have a way of making you live in the present.”

“Love is an action, and all the actions you are taking speak of love.”

The world’s gonna fuck with your kid no matter what. All you can do is teach ’em to brush their teeth and love themselves.”

Together we build another inheritance for Phineas’s child.

This baby isn’t what’s left over from our love story. This baby is our story’s continuation.